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noun
1.
any of several usually brightly colored, passerine birds of the family Oriolidae, of the Old World. Compare golden oriole.
2.
any of several brightly colored passerine birds of the family Icteridae, of the New World.
Compare northern oriole, orchard oriole.
Origin:
1770–80; < French oriol, Old French < Medieval Latin oriolus, variant of Latin aureolus golden, equivalent to aure(us) golden (derivative of aurum gold) + -olus -ole1
1770–80; < French oriol, Old French < Medieval Latin oriolus, variant of Latin aureolus golden, equivalent to aure(us) golden (derivative of aurum gold) + -olus -ole1
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Word Origin & History
oriole
1776, from Fr. oriol, O.Prov. auriol, from L. aureolus "golden," from PIE *aus- "gold." Originally in ref. to the Golden Oriole (Oriolus galbula), a bird of black and yellow plumage that summers in Europe (but is uncommon in England). Applied from 1791 to the unrelated but similarly colored Amer. species
EXPANDIcterus baltimore.
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